SPLK-1004 Practice Test 8 — 10 Questions

Question 1

Which attribute in an input element sets the label that the user sees?

Accepted Answer

label. The 'label' attribute defines the user-facing text for an input component.

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text

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name

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display

Question 2

A user complains that a calculated field is not showing up. Which of the following is the best first step to troubleshoot?

Accepted Answer

Check if the field is in the 'Selected Fields' or 'Interesting Fields' list.. Checking the 'Selected Fields' list in the search results is the best way to see if the field is present and extracted.

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Restart the Splunk service.

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Change the indexer's cluster master.

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Delete the index and re-ingest the data.

Question 3

Which type of lookup allows you to dynamically populate a lookup file based on the results of a search?

Accepted Answer

Outputlookup. Outputlookups are used to save search results into a file, which can act as a lookup table.

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External lookup

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KV Store lookup

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Automatic lookup

Question 4

You are creating a lookup definition that points to a CSV file. Which setting determines if the lookup match is case-sensitive for the input fields?

Accepted Answer

Lookup definition match type. The 'Case sensitive match' setting in the Lookup Definition determines whether the lookup matches are case-sensitive for the input fields.

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Input lookup command

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Automatic lookup field alias

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Lookup table file configuration

Question 5

What is the primary performance difference between using a 'lookup' command and a 'join' command?

Accepted Answer

Lookups are more efficient than joins for matching related data.. Lookups are generally much more performant because they are executed at index time or during the search-time retrieval process using optimized KV store or CSV lookups, whereas joins are memory-intensive operations.

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Lookups are executed in memory, while joins use the disk.

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Joins are faster for large datasets.

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They perform the same.

Question 6

Which CIM data model should be used to normalize authentication data?

Accepted Answer

Authentication. The Authentication data model is the standard CIM model for login, logout, and credential validation events.

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Change Analysis

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Network Traffic

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Email

Question 7

Which of the following is true about field extractions?

Accepted Answer

They use regular expressions to parse data.. Field extractions can be defined using regular expressions, which extract data from raw events.

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They are only available for the 'admin' role.

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They must be defined at index time.

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They only work on JSON data.

Question 8

You need to ensure that an alert notifies a specific team via email only when the number of errors exceeds 50 in 5 minutes. What is the correct way to implement this?

Accepted Answer

Set trigger condition to 'greater than' 50 results in 5 minutes.. You set the alert trigger condition to 'Number of results' greater than 50, and the time range to 5 minutes.

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Enable 'Real-time' alert mode.

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Use a cron expression of */5.

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Configure the 'Action' to 'Email'.

Question 9

You notice that an alert is not triggering. You have checked the search logic and permissions. What is another likely configuration issue?

Accepted Answer

Alert actions are not enabled.. If the 'Alert actions' are not enabled, the alert logic will run, but no action will execute.

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The app is not visible.

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The owner does not have write access.

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The search is too short.

Question 10

Where are search macros primarily stored within the Splunk configuration file system?

Accepted Answer

macros.conf. Search macros are stored in macros.conf.

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props.conf

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transforms.conf

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savedsearches.conf